Like Someone in Love (film)

Like Someone in Love (Japanese: ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ Raiku samuwan in rabu) is a French-Japanese drama film written and directed by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, starring Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryō Kase.

One night, Akiko is assigned to Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), a retired university professor who is more interested in making her dinner than having sex.

While waiting in the car for her, he encounters Noriaki, who assumes Takashi is her grandfather and asks permission to marry her.

Noriaki diagnoses a problem with the car and convinces Takashi to drive it to the garage he owns, where he replaces a fan belt.

The website's critical consensus reads, "In his second film outside his native Iran, director Abbas Kiarostami maintains the mysterious, reflective mood of previous triumphs.

[6] David Denby of The New Yorker writes, "This story, driven by undercurrents and oblique hints, is almost surprising in its circumspection."